1. Charles Biggs Calmady was an English landowner and cricketer with amateur status.
14 Facts About Charles Calmady
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Charles Calmady was co-heiress of her brother Francis John Calmady.
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Charles Calmady commanded HMS Solebay at the Battle of Saint Kitts in 1782, burning it when driven aground on Nevis by French attacks.
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Charles Calmady's father having died in March 1807, Calmady matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford in July of that year, aged 16.
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Charles Calmady's mother died aged 73 in 1828 at Langdon Hall, Devon, the family seat in the parish of Wembury, about 5 miles from Plymouth.
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Charles Calmady had bought West Wembury farm, from the Lockyer family, and owned the barton at Down Thomas, where the manor belonged to Edmund Pollexfen Bastard.
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Around 1840 Charles Calmady became involved with the New Zealand Company, sitting on its West of England Board.
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Charles Calmady named Calmady Terrace in New Plymouth after his sister Emily.
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The president or chairman of the Free Trade Association of the 1840s in Plymouth, Charles Calmady supported the repeal of the Corn Laws.
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Charles Calmady stood for election as a Liberal in 1847, in the Free Trade interest, in Plymouth, a constituency which returned two members to parliament.
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Charles Calmady came third in the poll with 769 votes, behind Viscount Ebrington and Roundell Palmer.
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Charles Calmady was associated with Marylebone Cricket Club and made his first-class cricket debut in 1828.
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Charles Calmady's bowling helped Plymouth Garrison Club defeat Devonport Club in September 1829.
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Charles Calmady married on 28 March 1816 at Hinton Ampner Emily Greenwood, of Brookwood Park, Bramdean, Hampshire; she was the daughter of William Greenwood, and sister of George Greenwood, author of Hints on Horsemanship, and of John Greenwood.